With the help of electron tomography we proved that the stroma thylakoids are helically wound around the granaum thylakoids.
We studied the flexibility of granal structure using SAXS, SANS and XRM methods. The results show that the light, osmotic and ionic stresses cause structural changes.
Circular dicroism shows that the light harvesting complex of photosystem II plays an important role in the light adaptation and protects from the excess light.
We have shown that different biological particles (like chloroplasts, granal particles, isolated LHCII lamellar aggregates and chromosomes) can be oriented with linearly polarized laser tweezers.
We have studied the structurally flexible macro-organization of the pigment-protein complexes of the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum.